Most and Least Entertaining Elections

[old timey villain]

Maybe not the most entertaining, but 1948 was certainly the most surprising election of the past 100 years or more.

 Unfortunately, I'd bet that most of us on here weren't around to witness it, but from what I've studied it looks like practically EVERYONE figured that Dewey would win easily, it wasn't even given that much thought. My guess is that Dewey and his supporters got complacent while Truman got fired up, and look what happened


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[old timey villain]

I don't find (the results of) 1976 to be that entertaining, since there was not much of an ideological pattern.

Still, it was kind of interesting because Ford really quickly closed a huge gap in the polls. In the summer Carter was leading by something like 20 points, and on election day he only won by 2. Hypothetically, if the election were held 2 weeks later Ford might have won.